Last week, I chatted having a co-worker in regards to the blog and some other outreach function I’ve been doing. On the topic of interview advice, he asked if I had read How Would You Move Mount Fuji? I admitted I had not, and he urged me to do so. He said the book was no major revelation, but it was really neat to see our professions immortalized and speculated about in a book. I have to admit; I was intrigued. Tonight, I visited the Microsoft Library online to check out a copy of the book. Not sure what this says about our population at Microsoft, but the MSLibrary has 25 copies of the book,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, ALL of which were checked out. And in fact,
Office Home And Student, there was a six person waiting list just to get the book. This proves my point …. Microsoft interviews only get harder and scarier after you become a fulltime employee. Those internal interviews are nuts! Requiring instant gratification, I headed to Borders to pick up a copy. I’m typically an online book shopper so my trips to bookstores are usually long and meandering. It’s a special treat for me. Some observations: Biggest trend
Could there be more books capitalizing on The Apprentice? Really? Do I really need Amy Henry telling me “What It Takes?” Biggest revelation
There are a helluva lot of books on interviewing. And to think I’ve been giving this stuff away for free. Damn,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise! Why didn’t you guys tell me?? Biggest disappointment
While perusing the career section, I ran across John Kador’s How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview. Scanning through his acknowledgements and additional resources,
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji was all sold out,
Windows 7 License! Boo to that! Anybody got a copy I could borrow? And what did I buy? Lois Frankel’s Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office and Chuck Palahniuk’s Stranger Than Fiction. What exactly do my book selections say about me? gretchen Question o’ the night: While checking out, I witnessed this very sullen, very downtrodden 16 year old purchasing a copy of Othello. You’d think her world was ending. It took all I had not to run up to her and say, “Ohmigod, you are SO lucky to be reading Othello. You are going to LOVE it!” This desire solidifies me as: a) lame
b) old
c) nerdy
d) all of the above You decide.
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